Going Home: The Short Life and Sudden Death of the U.S. Army Transport Steamer "General Lyon" - Paperback

by Peter Holman (Author)

An examination of the 12 month American Civil War life of the SS General Lyon and the almost 600 men, women and children who were lost when the vessel caught fire and sank, 31 March 1865. Footnoted and illustrated, this non-fiction work contains complete passenger lists and information on individual citizens and soldiers. Over three years of research and 2,500 miles of travel by car in the eastern states have brought many new discoveries about the people and the ship. Readers are invited to add to the information that is available; many people across the world have family members who perished in the tragedy and are encouraged to share stories with the author for inclusion in subsequent revisions.

Author Biography

PETER HOLMAN was born in Walthamstow, England and educated at Dover Grammar School for Boys and at the South African Theological Seminary. He has worked in the U.K. as a Post Office telegraphist and telex operator, and in the U.S.A. for thirty years in employment counselling, selling and marketing major medical diagnostic equipment, shipping radioactive materials, and the sales and service of personal lines insurance. A student of the War of the Rebellion for over half a century, he is currently retired and residing in Bloemfontein, South Africa where he and his wife, Lynn are volunteers at a Basotho children's home. Fiction: (as Peter Brian): - Snooks, North and South (1861-63) - Snooks; The Presidents' Man (1863-65) Articles: - The (Secret) Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade - An Uncivil War; General George G. Meade & The Pennsylvania Reserves in Northern Virginia, October 9 to December 6, 1861 - A Brief Sketch of the Life and Death of Lt. Simeon W. Cummings